Last night I attended a Iftar dinner put on by our campus Muslim Student Association. It was a great event, attended by many students on campus as it was a free meal, and had a true feeling of oneness. The purpose of the MSA dinner was to raise funds and awareness for hunger. They took pledges for the fasting that they do for Ramadan and turned this into donations for our local food bank. This great idea earned over $750 for this worthy charity.
The best part to me however was that on the way to the event, which was held in the student union, was the other groups that were meeting at the same time in other areas. The first one that I passed was the International Socialists. This group for me is hard to put a finger on. Who are socialists today? I went to their website; http://www.internationalsocialist.org/, to see what they were up to. I'm not sure how they plan on distributing the upper classes money once they get their hands on it, however I can assure you a good bit of it will end up in the socialist leaders pockets, it always does, just ask Castro.
Moving down the hall, I came across the Campus Crusade for Christ. Since they are crusaders I wondered if they were preaching a violent overthrow of Jerusalem and the Holy Land by college students on spring break. I can see the advertising now. Perhaps they are the new Knights Templar. As a Christian I'm sure they are doing a great thing and the Lord knows they need to start attending the International Socialists meetings to bring them into the fold. Then they can just be Democrats.
I just found it fascinating that you could be a Muslim Socialist Crusader all in one night in the same building.
1 comment:
Mark, I know what you mean can defiantly relate to it. You gotta love such wonderful juxtaposition of on campus interests and beliefs.
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